Hopton Hall

Hopton Hall is a country house dating back to the 16th century, with significant alterations in the early and late 18th centuries, and further changes in the early 20th century. The majority of the house is constructed from red brick with gritstone dressings, with a gritstone rubble wing to the north. It has a graduated slate roof with stone-coped gables and parapets, and various brick stacks, some of which are rendered.

The north entrance facade is three storeys high and seven bays wide, with a prominent three-window wide central bay. It features glazing bar sashes to the ground and first floors, and smaller sashes set beneath the eaves. A central panelled door is framed by pilasters and a decorated fanlight.

The house is arranged in an E-plan, created by three stone additions dating from 1914. A central embattled porch has a four-centred arch. To the west is a three-storey tower with mullioned windows and a stone slate, elongated pyramidal roof culminating in an elaborate metal finial. To the east is a similar two-storey tower. Further west of the tower, a north range includes a doorway with a heavily rusticated surround and cartouches above, incorporating a dated lintel from 1707. There are also several irregularly placed 19th-century casement windows.

The south garden elevation features a central advanced stone bay, two storeys high and four windows wide, topped by a brick segmental pediment. Four full-length plain sashes are located on the ground floor, with another four above. To either side are recessed gabled brick bays, two storeys high plus attics. The western bay has a Venetian door with a Venetian window above, and a Diocletian window in the gable, with a stone cornice below. The eastern bay originally had a Venetian door that has been replaced by a full-length sash window. At the extreme west is a two-bay gabled, rendered early 20th-century addition, with mullioned and transomed windows below, and mullioned windows above. At the extreme east is a single-storey 19th-century addition. The east elevation retains remnants of a 16th-century mullioned window and a large external stack.

The interior includes an early 19th-century reproduction of an Elizabethan plasterwork ceiling in the sitting room. The hall and stairs date from the early 20th century, with the exception of a 16th-century stone fireplace featuring strapwork designs on the lintel, and inserted 16th-century panelling with reticulated decoration above. Most rooms are well-organised. Several finely carved 18th-century wooden fireplaces with marble surrounds are also present.